"Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"", and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover. The setting of the plot is relocated to 1970s Saigon during the Vietnam War, and ""Madame Butterfly""'s story of marriage between an American lieutenant and a geisha is replaced by a romance between a United States Marine and a South Vietnamese bargirl. The musical was premièred at the Theatre Royal, Drury"
"Madama Butterfly Madama Butterfly (; ""Madam Butterfly"") is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It is based on the short story ""Madame Butterfly"" (1898) by John Luther Long, which in turn was based on stories told to Long by his sister Jennie Correll and on the semi-autobiographical 1887 French novel ""Madame Chrysanthème"" by Pierre Loti. Long's version was dramatized by David Belasco as the one-act play ""Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan"", which, after premiering in New York in 1900, moved to London, where Puccini saw"
"performance on 28 May 1904 in Brescia. ""Madama Butterfly"" is a staple of the operatic repertoire around the world, ranked 6th by Operabase; Puccini's ""La bohème"" and ""Tosca"" rank 3rd and 5th. Puccini wrote five versions of the opera. The original two-act version, which was presented at the world premiere at La Scala on 17 February 1904, was withdrawn after the disastrous premiere. Puccini then substantially rewrote it, this time in three acts. This second version was performed on 28 May 1904 in Brescia, where it was a great success. It was this second version that premiered in the United"
"presented two major new productions, ""Madama Butterfly"" and ""Tosca"". In addition, the program included Puccini's first opera, ""Le Villi"", presented in concert, with performances by Katia Ricciarelli and Josè Cura. In 2004 the Puccini Festival celebrated its 50th anniversary by a season featuring two great events: one was a new production of ""Madama Butterfly"" celebrating the centenary of its première in Brescia on 28 May 1904. It was conducted by Plácido Domingo with Daniela Dessì and Fabio Armiliato in the leading roles. The second was a special evening dedicated to Puccini's heroines, presenting the most beloved arias from the Maestro's"
"adaptation was close to being produced when he said, ""Sooner rather than later, the movie won't just be in my mind"". As well as this, the 2014 ""25th anniversary"" performance of ""Miss Saigon"" in London was filmed for an Autumn cinema broadcast. In March 2016, it was reported that Danny Boyle was in talks to direct the film for a 2018 release. Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"", and similarly tells the tragic tale of a"
"alla Scala in Milan, as Madama Butterfly, in 1925, and appeared there until 1937. Afterwards she began singing at all the major opera houses of Europe; the Monte Carlo Opera in 1927, the Royal Opera House in London, from 1928 to 1933, the Liceu in Barcelona and the Vienna State Opera in 1930, the Lyric Opera of Chicago from 1931 to 1932, and the Paris Opéra in 1935. She also appeared in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. A great Puccini interpreter, especially as Madama Butterfly, she also sang ""Manon Lescaut"", ""La bohème"", ""Tosca"", and Liu in ""Turandot"", also Mascagni's"
"opera (28 May 1904 at the Teatro Grande in Brescia) it was sung by the famous Ukrainian soprano Solomiya Krushelnytska. It has been subsequently performed by many sopranos (including Geraldine Farrar, Maria Callas, and Renata Tebaldi among others), recently also by at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where the original version of the opera was staged on 7 December 2016. In 1984 the pop musician Malcolm McLaren adapted the aria for his single ""Madam Butterfly (Un bel di vedremo)"", a Synth-pop remix of opera and 1980s R&B. The record reached No.13 in the UK Singles Chart and was included"
"Henry Hwang wrote a play entitled ""M. Butterfly"" which is a commentary on the racist stereotypes in the Puccini opera. Despite the tragic tone of the play, Hwang obviously satirizes Western ignorance about Asia and the fantasy of the passive Asian woman. David Cronenberg adapted the play into a film in 1993. The production of the play caught the attention of Giacomo Puccini, who would compose the Orientalist opera ""Madama Butterfly"" to a libretto based on Belasco's play and Long's short story. The original version of the opera, in two acts, had its premiere 17 February 1904 at La Scala"
"remained under treatment for months. During the medical examinations that he underwent it was also found that he was suffering from a form of diabetes. The accident and its consequences slowed Puccini's completion of his next work, ""Madama Butterfly"". The original version of ""Madama Butterfly"", premiered at La Scala on 17 February 1904 with Rosina Storchio in the title role. It was initially greeted with great hostility (probably largely owing to inadequate rehearsals). When Storchio's kimono accidentally lifted during the performance, some in the audience started shouting: ""The butterfly is pregnant"" and ""There is the little Toscanini"". The latter comment"
"Verdi, Puccini, Bellini, and Donizetti. Zhang Liping Zhang Liping (; born 1965) is a Chinese-Canadian soprano, who has sung leading roles in the opera houses of both Europe and North America. She is particularly known for her portrayal of Madama Butterfly. Zhang Liping was born in Wuhan, Hubei (about 650 miles south-west of Beijing) and is the daughter of a classical musician and a dancer. She entered the Wuhan Conservatoire to study voice. As a young student, she was selected to sing with Plácido Domingo in Tian'anmen Square. She then moved to Vancouver to study with Canadian mezzo-soprano Phyllis Mailing"
"""Il piccolo Marat"" and ""Iris"", and Nedda in Leoncavallo's ""Pagliacci"". Though essentially a lyric soprano, she occasionally sang a few spinto Verdi roles such as Leonora and Aida, and also Giordano's Maddalena and Fedora. She retired from the stage in 1946, and turned to teaching. Among her pupils was British soprano Amy Shuard. Pampanini died in Rovigo, aged 76. Rosetta Pampanini Rosetta Pampanini (2 September 1896 – 2 August 1973) was an Italian soprano, particularly associated with Puccini roles, especially Madama Butterfly. Pampanini was born in Milan. She began singing as a child, and later studied with Emma Malajoli. She"
"and directed by John Dexter; it starred John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling. David Dukes, Anthony Hopkins, Tony Randall, and John Rubinstein played Gallimard at various times during the original run. A highly unusual abstract staging, featuring Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"" intermixed with French pop music, had Kazakh countertenor Erik Kurmangaliev star as Song; he also sang two of Butterfly's arias live during the show. This production was directed by Roman Viktyuk in Moscow, Russia in 1992. The play was a 1989 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It is published by Plume and in"
"she famously became a savior of Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"". The opera had been booed by the audience at its premiere in Milan's La Scala, but three months later in Brescia, a revised version of the work, with Krushelnytska singing the leading role, was a major success. Her schedule, during her studies in Milan, included vocal lessons, acting lessons, learning new parts, learning new languages – for six hours every day. Her ""leisure time"" included visits to museums and historic sites, attendance at operatic and theatrical performances. She maintained active correspondence with friends and acquaintances, covering such issues as the fate"
"Madame Butterfly (play) Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan is a play in one act by David Belasco adapted from John Luther Long's 1898 short story ""Madame Butterfly"". It premiered on March 5, 1900, at the Herald Square Theatre in New York City and became one of Belasco's most famous works. The play and Long's short story served as the basis for the libretto of Puccini's 1904 opera, ""Madama Butterfly"". The title role was originally played in New York and London by Blanche Bates; in 1900–01 in New York by Valerie Bergere; and in 1913 by Clara Blandick. ""Madame Butterfly"""
"Bosini sang a wide range of parts during her career. Other roles she created on stage included Cio-Cio-San in ""Madama Butterfly"", Desdemona in ""Otello"", Elsa in ""Lohengrin"", a flower maiden in ""Parsifal"", Hanna Glawari in ""The Merry Widow"", Maria in ""Guglielmo Ratcliff"", Margherita in ""Mefistofele"", Marguerita in ""Faust"", Micaela in ""Carmen"", Nedda in ""Pagliacci"", and the title roles of Giordano's ""Fedora"", Mascagni's ""Iris"", Massenet's ""Manon"", and Puccini's ""Manon Lescaut"" and ""Tosca"". After retiring from the stage in 1930, Bosini taught singing in Milan and managed her husband's career. She and her husband lived their latter years at the Casa di"
"The Firefly (film) The Firefly is a 1937 musical film starring Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones. The film is an adaptation of the operetta of the same name by composer Rudolf Friml and librettist Otto A. Harbach that premiered on Broadway in 1912. The film used nearly all of the music from the operetta but jettisoned the plot in favor of a new storyline set in Spain during the time of the Emperor Napoleon I. It added a new song, ""The Donkey Serenade"" (a reworking by Herbert Stothart of Friml's 1918 orchestral piece 'Chanson'), which became extremely popular, as was"
"Puccini's Madama Butterfly. She was also chosen to sing Cio Cio San in the Italian production of Madama Butterfly which celebrated the centenary of the opera's first performance and which was seen throughout Italy. She was the first Chinese soprano to assume the Verdian role of Aida, she debuted this role in Vienna (2008), New York (2010), and Chicago (2012). She has remained associated with this role and has recorded it twice on video. She is also known for singing the title role in Puccini's opera Tosca, which brought her her first major breakthrough in European opera houses. Her operatic"
"Lee Curtis, David Carradine, Joel Grey, and many others. ""Madame Butterfly"" was originally a short story written by Philadelphia attorney John Luther Long. It was turned into a one-act play, ""Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan"", by David Belasco. Giacomo Puccini re-made the play into the Italian opera ""Madama Butterfly"", set in 1904. The 1915 silent film version was directed by Sidney Olcott and starred Mary Pickford. All the versions of Madame Butterfly tell the story of a young Japanese woman who has converted to Christianity (for which she is disowned by her family) and marries Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, a"
"over the next two years, and made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, with ""Madama Butterfly"" in 1928. The following year he was invited to conduct the opening work in Covent Garden's international season, ""Don Giovanni"", with a cast that included Mariano Stabile, Elisabeth Schumann and Heddle Nash. In 1929, after financial problems had forced the BNOC to disband, the Covent Garden management set up a touring company to fill the gap, and appointed Barbirolli as its musical director and conductor. The operas in the company's first provincial tour included ""Die Meistersinger"", ""Lohengrin"", ""La bohème"", ""Madama Butterfly"","
"the New York premiere of Lehár’s ""The Merry Widow"" with a contemporary libretto by the late Wendy Wasserstein. Since its founding, Dicapo has been particularly dedicated to the music of Giacomo Puccini. It gave the first performances anywhere of all three versions of Puccini’s ""Madama Butterfly"" (Milan, Brescia, and Paris) successively in one weekend. With choreography by Dicapo’s Director of Dance Nilas Martins, Dicapo was the first to present music and dance presentations of Puccini’s ""Le Villi"" and The Mass, and has also presented settings of a number of Puccini songs and incidental music to dance. By the end of"
"Cristina Gallardo-Domâs Cristina Gallardo-Domâs is a soprano, born in Santiago, Chile, who frequently performs in operas by Puccini. Gallardo-Domâs made her debut as Madama Butterfly in 1990 at the Municipal Theatre of Santiago and, three years later, began performing in opera houses in Europe, making her La Scala debut in 1993 in ""La Rondine"". Gallardo-Domâs' many Puccini performances include: ""Turandot"" and ""Madama Butterfly"" at the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State Opera, and Royal Opera House; ""La bohème"" at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and Paris Opéra; ""Manon Lescaut"" at the Zurich Opera and Los Angeles Opera; ""Simon Boccanegra (by Verdi)"" at"
"for opera programmes at the Manoel Theatre in Malta, conducting new music productions such as: Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti, Il Trovatore, I Pagliacci by Leoncavallo and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Mozart's Clemenza di Tito. Maestro Binetti is also the author of an orchestration of Puccini's Madama Butterfly for ballet, performed with great acclaim from critics in Prague, with choreography by Robert Balogh. He is also the author of a ballet version of Cinderella, with the music of Gioacchino Rossini, held in the Opera Houses of Kraków and Lodz in Poland, and presented later in Vienna and in Edinburgh. Since 2009"
"Poor Butterfly ""Poor Butterfly"" is a popular song. It was inspired by Giacomo Puccini's opera ""Madame Butterfly"" and contains a brief musical quote from the Act two duet ""Tutti i fior"" in the verse. The music was written by Raymond Hubbell, the lyrics by John L. Golden. The song was published in 1916. It was introduced in the Broadway show ""The Big Show"", which opened in August 1916 at the New York Hippodrome, and was sung in the show by Sophie Bernard. The song has become a pop standard, recorded by many artists. The two biggest hit versions in 1917"
"of Abigaille in ""Nabucco"" by Verdi and of ""Aida"". In 2014 she sang her first Cio Cio San at Arena di Verona (""Madama Butterfly""). At Teatro Filarmonico in Verona she debuted in 2004 as the main role in ""Tosca"" by Puccini; then ""The merry widow"" (operetta) by Lehár in 2005, ""Manon Lescaut"" in 2011 and Nedda in ""Pagliacci"" in 2012; Odabella in ""Attila"" (opera) by Verdi in 2013. In 2007 she debuted as ""Tosca"" with José Cura at Wiener Staatsoper. During the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago in 2010 she debuted ""Madama Butterfly"" and came back to this festival"
"Rosetta Pampanini Rosetta Pampanini (2 September 1896 – 2 August 1973) was an Italian soprano, particularly associated with Puccini roles, especially Madama Butterfly. Pampanini was born in Milan. She began singing as a child, and later studied with Emma Malajoli. She made her stage debut in 1920, at the Teatro Nazionale in Rome, as Micaela, and in Turin in 1921, as Siebel. After further studies, she made her debut at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, as Desdemona, in 1923, and sang the following year Elsa in Bergamo. Noticed by conductor Arturo Toscanini, she made her debut at the Teatro"
"""Fredman's Songs"". ""Madam Butterfly"" is a 1904 opera by Giacomo Puccini about a romantic young Japanese bride who is deserted by her American officer husband soon after they are married. It was based on John Luther Long's short story written in 1898. According to Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly was seen in Japan as the personification of a person's soul; whether they be living, dying, or already dead. One Japanese superstition says that if a butterfly enters your guest room and perches behind the bamboo screen, the person whom you most love is coming to see you. Large numbers of butterflies"
"Ferrani sang in the world premiere of Mascagni's ""Le maschere"" at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. At La Scala she sang Mélisande in the first Milan performance of ""Pelléas et Mélisande"" with Toscanini in 1908. Her other roles included Juliette from ""Roméo et Juliette"", Fanny in ""Sapho"", Charlotte from ""Werther"", Amelia from ""Simon Boccanegra"", Elisabeth in ""Tannhäuser"", and both Elsa in ""Lohengrin"" and Eva in ""Die Meistersinger"" among others. Her final appearance was in 1909 as Mélisande. In 1928 when the first recording of Puccini's ""Madama Butterfly"" was made, the Grammophone Company invited her out of retirement to sing"
"Grey supplied the lyrics for the few new songs in the score. At the request of Ziegfeld, Victor Herbert was engaged to write the music to ""The Butterfly Ballet"" in Act Three. The musical was originally produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, opening on December 21, 1920 at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway. It ran for 570 performances, which was one of the longest runs on Broadway up to that time. By the time it closed in 1924 (including revivals), it would prove to be among the top five money makers of the 1920s. The show was designed as the musical"
"at Fenice in Venice, where she returned for the same role in 2014. In Spain she sang in Mallorca (Tosca, 2005), in Oviedo ""Un ballo in maschera"" at Teatro Campoamor in 2009, and at Oviedo Opera ""Madama Butterfly"" in 2014, in Siviglia (""Madama Butterfly"" in 2012), in Pamplona (""Madama Butterfly"", 2012 ) and at Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona (""Madama Butterfly"" in 2013 and ""Il Tabarro"" in a concert version, 2014). In Germany she made her debut in 2003 as ""Aida"" at Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where she returned in 2005 for ""Pagliacci"" and in 2007 for ""Suor Angelica""."
"1889 with the same cast. ""Principal Dancers -"" Varvara Nikitina (as the Butterfly), Pavel Gerdt (as the Phoenix Moth), Sergei Litavki (as the Grasshopper), Maria Anderson (as the Fly), Alexander Shiraev (as the Spider), and Sergei Legat (as the Nightingale). The Whims of the Butterfly The Whims of the Butterfly (also known as ""The Caprices of a Butterfly"", or ""Les Caprices du Papillon"") is a ballet in 1 act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the poem ""The Grasshopper Musician"" by Yakov Polonsky. First presented by the Imperial Ballet on"
"""Madama Butterfly"", and later that same year appeared as Mimì in ""La bohème"" in Los Angeles, opposite Plácido Domingo. Her Metropolitan debut in New York came in 2001 with role of Mimì, followed by Cio-Cio San and Mimì at San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House. She can be heard in many recordings, notably in ""Pagliacci"", ""Manon Lescaut"", ""Madama Butterfly"", ""Simon Boccanegra"", ""Otello"", ""La bohème"", ""Tosca"", ""Suor Angelica"", ""Gianni Schicchi"", Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Egmont, Brahm's Requiem, Don Carlo's Act 5 duet with Ramon Vargas for RCA, as well as a recital of Italian opera arias for Naxos. Her career has"
"The Whims of the Butterfly The Whims of the Butterfly (also known as ""The Caprices of a Butterfly"", or ""Les Caprices du Papillon"") is a ballet in 1 act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the poem ""The Grasshopper Musician"" by Yakov Polonsky. First presented by the Imperial Ballet on June 5/17 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1889 for the Imperial court at the theatre of Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ballet was given a second premiere for the general public at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on October 25/November 6,"
"the east coast, to the Scottish borders, to the Central Belt and to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Operas are adapted for a small stage and a small cast with no chorus. A piano and violin replace an orchestra. An exception to this is Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin which includes a string ensemble. Each new production leads to tours which include remote and small venues. Puccini's Madame Butterfly has featured around most of Scotland. It was also performed in London's Middle Temple. Madame Butterfly was most recently reviewed following the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015 at which Opera Bohemia has performed a different"